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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 277038" data-attributes="member: 23">Double Shock continued Even the murder has a gallows humour to it. After the electrocution blows the circuits in the house, Mrs Peck the housekeeper becomes mildly distraught when her television set switches itself off while she’s watching the medical drama with young Marc Singer as a Dr Kildare type (his TV debut, apparently). She is even more upset when it switches back on and she finds everyone is purple. Then there’s the discovery of old Clifford’s body, which has been placed on his electric exercise bike, draped forward over the handlebars, his top half rocks back and forth while underneath his legs continue to pump madly round from his feet being placed on the pedals. It’s incredibly undignified and quite a comical image, even under the circumstances. Jeanette Nolan, who plays Mrs Peck, is a voice I’m most familiar with from her uncredited role as Norma Bates in Psycho. She’s great in this episode. There’s a running gag with her shouting at Columbo for his sloppy ways. It begins when he drops ash on the floor. Then he panics at her reaction and smashes a decanter. And it gets worse from there, with a cycle of Columbo creating a mess and Mrs Peck overreacting then apologising. Their interactions are so much fun. Columbo appears terrified of her Possibly the funniest moment is when he tries to do the right thing by flicking his ash into an ashtray, only to find out otherwise:[MEDIA=youtube]fCMIdjqKfDU[/MEDIA]There’s a great scene where Columbo makes a little speech to her about their situation, leading to a truce. But it's short-lived:[MEDIA=youtube]0J8_pqPCW7A[/MEDIA]The lead up to the Gotcha was enjoyable. Especially the running gag with Mrs Peck’s TV set. Columbo's experiments to work out the time it would take to get from the bathroom to the fusebox meant he kept knocking out Mrs Peck’s TV every time she was trying to enjoy her medical drama. Including one moment where it came back on looking as though it was fixed, but then switched to purple again. Obviously Columbo worked out there needed to have been two of them in order to get the power back on so quickly and move the body. It seemed quite obvious to me that the two of them would have worked together, though I suppose this was a less hackneyed idea in 1973, and the way it was presented remains original. Columbo also claimed to have contacted the telephone company to prove the brothers had been in contact despite claiming otherwise. It’s kind of a shame it was sprung upon the audience without giving us the chance to work out how he’d put it together. But it is definitive evidence, at least. Certainly enough to be reasonably satisfying. </blockquote>

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